The Worldwide Reaction to Innocence of Muslim

The Worldwide Reaction to Innocence of Muslim

After the release of a Youtube trailer for the film of Innocence of Muslim, a series of protest and violent attack by many Muslim around the world begin. It started with at US Diplomatic mission in Cairo, Egypt, and Benghazi, Libya.
In Cairo, Egypt, a group scale the embassy wall and tore down the American flag to replace it with a black Islamic flag. In Benghazi, heavily armed man attacked the US consulate and set a fire that killed 14 US officials and injured 2 others. On September 13, protest occurred at US embassy in Sana’a Yemen with 4 casualty and 35 injured. U.S consulate in Chennai was attacked resulting in injuries to twenty-five protesters. It doesn’t just stop here; more violent attack and protest were reported from all over the globe. A total of 75 death and hundreds of injury was estimated.
Another example to show is the Burn a Quran Day incident started with Terry Jones, a pastor of the Christian Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. In 2009, he announced that he would burn 200 Qurans on the 9th anniversary of September 11 tragedy hoping to convey his message that Islam is violent religion and the sole cause of the tragedy. However, the act did not happen and no Quran was burned that day. Burning the Quran controversy initially had little support but on July 25th, but a then Religious News Service ran a cover story on him saying that he has received Quran to be burn on that day. Terry Jones then posted a video on YouTube making a statement that saying that “This (Quran) is the book that is responsible for 9/11. No, to me it looks like the religion of the devil.” His action received many negative feedbacks and protest from leaders around the world. The most profound impact of the Burning of the Quran controversy was the riot in northern Afghanistan in the state of Mazar-I-Sharif. The riot was prompted by 3 mullahs who urged the public to protest and avenge over the burning of the Quran at the United Nations Assistance Mission in...